Producing and planning our film opening

Roles

·     Director - controls a film’s artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the script while guiding the camera crew and actors.

·     Camera Person – responsible for operating the camera and maintaining composition and camera angles through each scene and shot

·     Editor – connect shots to form a sequence and prepares the sound mixing a film

We are all going to share the jobs for example filming but me and Joe are the actors. I am Becky Jones and Joe is the psychopath killer.

Production Schedule

The definition of a production schedule is the timetable for the use of resources and processes required by a business to produce or provide services. A typical business will change it’s production schedule in response to what customers want, to accommodate resource charges, to reduce costs and to increase the overall efficiency.

            It is mainly big businesses, companies or factories that use production schedules. They include:

·      Process change-over reduction,

·      Inventory reduction, levelling,

·      Reduced scheduling effort,

·      Increased production efficiency

·      Labour load levelling,

·      Accurate delivery date quotes,

·      Real time information.

It is not just big businesses that use production scheduling, in the film industry, production scheduling is extremely important. This doesn’t just include creating schedules but also reading, interpreting and following various scheduling devices, boards and memo’s. The directors and their assistants normally create these but the production manager and coordinator are in charge if making sure the scheduling is feasible so they must be knowledgeable and updated within the practices of the film industry.

            An example of a production schedule:

Our own production schedule  

Sound	Costume and Props	Actors Needed	Group Personality
The camera will pick up natural sound, ambient sounds and diegetic sounds.	Casual clothing – darkest clothing for evil character – non branded. Computer and phone.	Kelly – girl/victim. Joe - Man/Stalker.	Joe – actor, cameraperson Kelly – actress, camera person Jodie – camera person All – directors and editors

Date	Act & Shot	Location	Holding the Camera	Lighting
19th December 2013	Opening 2-3 mins.	76 Queens Way, Tamoworth.	Handheld: Jodie and joe	Low key lighting -interior: Lamps, TV, Laptop. Exterior -  dark, night time: Lampposts, Cars, Other houses.

Why plan for a film?

Avoiding problems:

By planning you will not run into any unexpected errors within the process of making your film so everything will flow a lot smoother and quicker as you will not have to focus on resolving any problems.

Knowing your shots:

It means that you will know what positions you will have to get into to film certain shots so that you are not thinking what would be the best shot at the time and potentially disagreeing resulting in wasting time.

Budget:

As well as planning your time you could also be planning your money as you may find that you could run over your budget but planning ahead could mean that you avoid the situation.

Casting:

Give each person their role ahead of the day of filming so that they are prepared for what role they are playing, getting all their lines learnt and being able to act on the day.

Common needs:

Is there a toilet available? Will you be able to get lunch? Make sure you have everyone’s needs looked to.